The Secret Diary of Stephen Harper: Scary Tories Bully Contributors, Unfair to Opposition

Monday, November 5, 2007

Scary Tories Bully Contributors, Unfair to Opposition

Secretive uncaring US-style election financing, blah, blah, blah, yadda yadda. Anyway, our friends at Elections Canada have just released some shocking figures on party financial returns:

* Conservative Party - $3,152,985.38 from 32,812 contributors
* Puffin Party of Canada - $793,835.78 from 7,849 contributors
* NDP - $594,479.68 from 10,857 contributors
* Green Party - $218,505.14 from 3,143 contributors
* Bloc Quebecois $31,520.06 from 310 contributors

Talk Tough Like Mike

•“Look, this is America and you have to decide what kind of country you want. This is your country as much as it is mine.” - 2004
*"Look, if I lose, I'll just move back to Massachusetts." - to the Harvard Crimson newspaper - 2006
*“If you mess with me, I’ll mess with you until I’m done.”
• "You're looking at someone who turned down the chance to become Prime Minister of Canada, and I did so, in part, because I felt it would divide the country."
• “I don’t need any lessons in legitimacy from Harper.”
• “He knows where to find me.”
• "He's creating a parliamentary crisis and dividing the country."
• "It’s his budget, not mine."
• "It's up to Harper to make the right decision and up to me to decide if he made it."
• "We're putting the government on probation."
•"Mr. Harper, your time is up.”
*"This is a prime minister who a year ago was trying to make you embarrassed if you liked opera or classical music or the ballet or poetry. I mean, come on, let's get over this. You can like hockey, you can like classical music. Let's stop playing Canadian against Canadian and taste against taste."

The Susan Delacarte Stephen Harper Attack Thesaurus (Under Construction)